The power game in Byzantium
Subtitle: Antonina and the Empress Theodora
By: James Allan Evans
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781441140784
Subjects: Empresses; Court and courtiers; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The background of the story; title: The scum of society; title: The rise to power; title: The remarkable career of the young Belisarius; title: Antonina in love; title: Victory and defeat in the ecclesiastical arena; title: Theodora's riposte; title: The fall of John the Cappadocian; title: The Theodosius and Antonina affair continued; title: Plague and intrigue; title: Theodora fosters an anti-Chalcedonian church; title: The agony of Italy; title: Postlude : the ending of the era of reconquest; title: Appendix I. Two contemporary witnesses.